Dear Pippa:
What about arXiv which started in 1991 at Las Alamos
National laboratory? that was clearly an early OA
initiative. There was also another initiative by high
energy physicists of SLAC called HEPP (?), and CERN
had a dissemination system in place equally long ago.
Arun
--- Pippa Smart <pippa.smart_at_GOOGLEMAIL.COM> wrote:
> I have a question: when did the OA movement
> "officially" begin - the
> earliest dates I have are:
>
> 2001 - editors/authors decide to boycott journals
> that do not make content
> OA within 6 months
> 2002 - Budapest Open Access Initiative
> 2003 - Berlin declaration, Bethesda statement, etc.,
> etc.
>
> so would it be correct to say that the OA movement
> started in 2000/2001 ?
>
> thanks
> Pippa Smart
>
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